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The Boob Job Evolves

Implants are shrinking and ‘breast explant’ surgery is on the rise

Trends evolve. It’s true of fashion, it’s true of car design and it’s true for the shape of women’s breasts, too. After years of big boobs being the beauty standard, more women in Hollywood and beyond have decided that the large breast implants they got for cosmetic reasons have lost their luster.

Just last month, actress Alyssa Milano said she was getting what’s commonly called an “explant”, ditching her breast implants and the emotional baggage associated with them. The cheeky Victoria Beckham recently joked to U.K. tabloid The Sun that the implants she used to have are “bobbing around in the Mediterranean Sea.” And she celebrated that she now feels “free to just be me.”

It’s tempting to celebrate a wave of celebrity explants as a trend toward body acceptance, but the boob job isn’t going anywhere. Breast augmentation remains one of the most popular cosmetic surgeries among American women, with about 300,000 performed yearly. But plastic surgeons say they’re seeing a steady rise in implant removals and smaller breast implants, a shift that mirrors broader cultural currents. According to the Washington Post, as some women come to terms with the way beauty trends pushed them to make choices they now want reversed, plenty of others continue to choose surgery in pursuit of the perfect breasts.

But what constitutes a “perfect” boob today is different. The new allure of Pilates bodies and an aesthetic pendulum swinging toward more natural enhancement. Prospective patients now ask surgeons for that ‘yoga breast’ look. Or they pull up the Instagram account of their favorite celebrity.

Nowadays, celebrities are less coy about their surgeries. Take, for instance, when TikToker Rachel Leary pleaded with Kylie Jenner to share her breast surgery details: Jenner complied: “445 cc, moderate profile, half under the muscle!!!!! silicone!!! garth fisher!!! hope this helps lol.” And earlier this week, Jennifer Lawrence says she’s made peace with nearly all the physical changes that came with motherhood—but she is planning a post-baby boob job. She’s getting them done next month, she told the New Yorker, as she will be filming a nude scene for an upcoming project in the spring.

ICE Is Struggling

White House purges field officials and ICE can’t seem to hire new officers (even after lowering standards)

The Trump administration is reassigning at least half the top leadership at Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices around the country in a major shake-up of the agency responsible for carrying out the president’s vision for mass deportations, according the Associated Press. The White House has put significant pressure on ICE to meet the administration’s arrest and deportation goals.

The reason for the personnel changes wasn’t immediately clear. But they indicate a greater integration of Border Patrol agents in ICE at a time when Customs and Border Protection has been accused of using heavy-handed tactics in its immigration enforcement. Fox News reported that the leadership changes come as there's a split between Trump administration officials. Sources told Fox that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wants broader arrest priorities, while White House border czar Tom Homan and ICE acting Director Todd Lyons prefer to prioritize arrests of undocumented people with criminal records.

MSNBC reports that while DHS is spending millions of dollars on an aggressive television ad campaign targeting local police officers, it’s still not getting nearly enough applicants. A similar effort to expand ICE staffing during President Trump’s first term fell short, and a recruitment drive for the Customs and Border Protection Agency, or CBP, resulted in serious concerns about sharp declines in officer quality and trustworthiness. Both processes also had striking failure rates, with one internal report suggesting that ICE would need more than 500,000 applicants to achieve a net increase of 10,000 (and CBP would need to interview 750,000 to add 5,000).

Israel Is Winning the Wars and Losing the Peace

Netanyahu orders ‘powerful strikes’ in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that he had ordered “powerful strikes in the Gaza Strip immediately” in retaliation for what Israeli officials say was a Hamas attack on Israeli forces in the city of Rafah. The strikes killed at least 91 people, including dozens of children, hospital officials said on early Wednesday—marking the deadliest day since the beginning of the ceasefire championed by President Donald Trump.

The deal to end the war in Gaza was easily Trump’s biggest diplomatic achievement this term—but it’s now looking incredibly fragile. Axios reports that the administration has been focusing over the last several weeks on stabilizing the ceasefire and pressing both parties to avoid steps that could detonate it. On Air Force One en route from Tokyo to Seoul, Trump told reporters that Israel had the right to retaliate and he didn't think the clashes endangered the ceasefire. Trump added that if Hamas doesn’t behave, it will be destroyed.

NPR says Israel continues to come under withering international criticism. The Israeli government faces charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice, and Netanyahu has been charged with war crimes at the International Criminal Court. Israel and Netanyahu reject both these charges.

Obesity Rate Is Declining

Use of GLP-1 injectables for weight loss has more than doubled since early 2024

After peaking at a record high of 39.9% in 2022, the U.S. adult obesity rate has gradually declined to 37.0% in 2025. According to new survey data from Gallup, this is a “statistically meaningful decrease representing an estimated 7.6 million fewer obese adults” compared with three years ago.

Results were based on data from three nationally representative surveys of 16,946 U.S. adults interviewed in the first three quarters of 2025. In the report, published Tuesday, obesity was defined using the federal standard of having a BMI of 30 or higher. The report also explored the simultaneous increase in GLP-1 drug usage for weight loss, including semaglutides like Ozempic and Wegovy. These drugs are also used to treat type 2 diabetes, which the report noted was still at an all-time high, with 13.8% of participants saying they’ve been diagnosed with the chronic disease.

GLP-1s, which act on the brain and the body’s hormones to help suppress hunger and slow digestion, are now considered a “watershed in Americans’ long struggle” to address obesity and related diseases. These diseases have persistently and stubbornly increased through the decades, through various dietary trends and public health interventions.

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